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African American choir and other musicians supported by Works Progress Administration programs

Works Progress Administration helps musicians to find jobs in their field during the Great Depression. Opening scene shows orchestra performing in concert at the Toledo Zoo Amphitheater (2700 Broadway St, Toledo, OH 43609, United States) in Toledo, Ohio. Next, an African American gospel choir gathers around a piano and sings the spiritual "Ezekiel Saw the Wheel" led by their female conductor, the famed Blues singer Juanita Hall.

Location: Toledo Ohio USA
Date: 1937
Duration: 44 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675023748
Bessie Pastor and husband Michael Berliney create synthetic ice in Toledo.

Bessie Pastor and husband Michael Berliney create synthetic ice in their Toledo, Ohio home lab. The substance is poured into molds and blocks of synthetic ice are manufactured. Masons join blocks and smoothen them out to build skating floor. Children,men and women wearing skates take a test run on the synthetic ice flooring. April 1938.

Location: Toledo Ohio USA
Date: 1938, April
Duration: 38 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: None
Clip: 65675028777
Goodyear's management team from Sweden returns to Akron after shutdown of Goodyear's Swedish plant in World War 2.

Goodyear managers observe a model of the globe. George Hinshaw shows Mr. Paul Litchfield, Chairman and CEO of Goodyear, the route taken by a team of Goodyear managers returning from Sweden to the United States. Management from Sweden come to Akron Ohio as the Goodyear rubber plant in Sweden was shutdown due to a wartime shortage of rubber. Various managers from the closed Goodyear operation in Sweden walk down the gangplank from their ship at dock, including Twisty Monk, Bob Wilson, Lee Young, and others. Press interviews Bob Wilson. Mrs. Walter Condon, wife of the Goodyear Australia Superintendent arrives at Akron Airport to visit her ill mother. View of United Airlines DC-3 taxiing to a halt, and Mrs. Condon emerging from the plane.

Location: Akron Ohio USA
Date: 1941
Duration: 1 min 28 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675030563
Women from Goodyear show use of Pliofilm bags to protect personal articles from water when swimming

Women from Goodyear rubber company show new use of Pliofilm in Akron Ohio. Man gives pliofilm bags to women. The pliofilm bags serve as waterproof purses for the women's things. Women in swimsuits walk towards the lake on a dock. They swim and then later apply make-up. They swing on a swing set above the water. Narrator describes how Pliofilm is also used for defense purposes, in parachutes, food packages and bandages.

Location: Akron Ohio USA
Date: 1941
Duration: 45 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675030564
Promotion for Goodyear's "Protect Our Good Name" slogan campaign

Goodyear tire manufacturing plant In Akron Ohio. Employees gather and stand in line. A man instructs them. Men with goods carriers walk out. Two men hang slogan plate of Goodyear on the wall. 'Protect our good name' is written on slogan plate. One of these plates is seen near a water tap. Man drinks water from fountain and reads the slogan. Views of a another plaque with more text after the slogan. Narrator reads words on the plaque written by Goodyear's Mr. Paul Litchfield, Chairman and CEO of Goodyear. View of factory smoke stack with smoke coming out of it.

Location: Akron Ohio USA
Date: 1941
Duration: 1 min 1 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675030572
Views of Cleveland National Air races and Colonel Roscoe Turner winning the Thompson Trophy race.

A huge gathering at Cleveland National Air Races in Cleveland, Ohio. Eight airplanes take off for the start of the Thompson Trophy Race. Views of airplanes in flight including Colonel Roscoe Turner in the 'Turner-Laird Special', with Roscoe Turner at control, lands after winning the Thompson Trophy race. Colonel Roscoe Turner holding two trophies, including Thompson Trophy, surrounded by crowd.

Location: Cleveland Ohio USA
Date: 1938
Duration: 55 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675032877
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